What happens when you have a disability that's so embarrassing that sufferers are afraid to talk about it? Tessa Miller has written an incredible essay about life with irritable bowel disease, shedding light on what it means to live with an invisible disability. »11/14/13 3:58pm 11/14/13 3:58pm

Traditionally, wheels and stairs are a tragic combination, what's akin to mixing oil and water. Looking to overturn this convention, researchers at the Chiba Institute of Technology have developed a robotic wheelchair that can actually climb over steps. »10/16/12 12:40pm 10/16/12 12:40pm

Check out this commercial put together by Paralympic organizers who are trying very hard to cast the Games and its athletes in a completely new light. Rather than framing Paralympians as being somehow deficient or inadequate, they're now being portrayed as elite athletes endowed with superhuman capacities. »8/30/12 1:00pm 8/30/12 1:00pm

Sometimes life is just too cool. Here are a smartphone and some earbuds that take information from a webcam attached to a pair of sunglasses and allow blind people to 'see.' »8/05/11 8:30am 8/05/11 8:30am

The idea that people who are denied one sense have their other senses enhanced has been called a myth. But it looks like that myth was a myth. A recent study showed that deaf people's eyes develop enhanced vision. »6/03/11 7:00am 6/03/11 7:00am

Why does science fiction always imagine disabled people as villains, less than human, or in need of redemption? You can help change this dire situation, by entering Redstone Science Fiction's new contest, "Towards An Accessible Future." »6/08/10 12:34pm 6/08/10 12:34pm

Quadriplegic sailor Hilary Lister can control her boat using a computer activated by the "sip and puff" interface she has in her mouth. With this rig, she crossed the English channel on her own. Futurist Jamais Cascio, who consults with companies like Mozilla on 10-year innovation plans, told io9 that computers like… »11/21/07 9:30am 11/21/07 9:30am